Strategic environmental assessments and sustainability appraisal
This one-day masterclass will explain how to fulfil latest legal requirements, and how to use the SEA/SA process to help improve plans. Strategic environmental assessments (SEA) and sustainability appraisals (SA) help to ensure that plans and programmes are as environmentally sound and sustainable as possible. SEA and SA are required for a wide range of plans and programmes under new legislation.
10 March 2011
1 Day
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GBP 449 + VAT
London
Venue not yet confirmed
9.00-9.30
5.00
36386
Why you should attend this masterclass
The European Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of the effects of certain plans and programmes on the environment and the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 respectively, require strategic environmental assessment (SEA) and sustainability appraisal (SA). SA applies to Local Development Frameworks and Regional Spatial Strategies, SEA applies to these, plus local transport plans, waste and minerals plans, and a wide range of other plans and programmes. This masterclass explains how to fulfil these legal requirements, and how to use the SEA/SA processes to help improve plans.
Who should attend?
- Planners (land use, transport, minerals, waste, etc.) – how do I do it?
- Planning consultants – how to support planners in doing it?
- Sustainability/LA 21 officers – how do I ensure that sustainability is fully integrated?
Benefits of attending
This masterclass will help you understand:
- Legal requirements for SEA/SA
- How to collect and format baseline sustainability/ environmental data for SEA/SA
- How to analyse and format the plan’s links to other policies, plans, programmes and sustainability/ environmental objectives
- How to identify sustainability/environmental problems
- How to devise SEA/SA objectives
- Which parts of a plan to assess and how
- Mitigation and monitoring of plan impacts
- What resources are needed for SEA/SA
- What can be expected of SEA/SA consultants
- How SA/SEA relates to Habitats Directive Assessment
Programme
9.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and introduction
9.40 SEA requirements: the SEA Directive and Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004
11.00 Coffee
11.20 SA requirements: the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
- Links between SA and SEA
12.00 The scoping stages 1:
- Links to other policies, plans and programmes
- Environmental/sustainability baseline
12.30 Lunch
1.15 The scoping stages 2:
- Environmental problems and sustainability issues
- The SA/SEA framework
1.45 Workshop: policy assessment
2.30 Tea/coffee
2.45 The assessment stages
- What alternatives to assess
- What parts of the draft plan to assess
- Impact prediction, evaluation and mitigation
- Monitoring
3.10 Concluding SA issues
- Who should carry out assessment
- Resource implications
3.20 (Optional) Habitats Regulations Assessment
- Who should carry out assessment
- Resource implications
4.00 Close
Trainer
This masterclass will be led by Dr Riki Therivel, a visiting professor at Oxford Brookes University’s School of the Built Environment and partner of Levett-Therivel sustainability consultants. Riki has written several government guidance documents on SEA/SA, carried out and supported a wide range of SEA/SAs, and run many training courses on the subject. She is the 2002-2003 recipient of the International Association for Impact Assessment’s Individual Award for Contribution to Impact Assessment.
Quote from a previous participant...
“Very thorough, well presented and executed. Extremely good booklet”
“Responded to requests and additional coverage. Very enthusiastic leader”'
'This masterclass was an excellent/quick method of getting up to speed with a leading presenter. The table layout format made it less formal and more interactive. Ricki Therivel was an excellent speaker and very engaging'
CPD requirements
This event is intended to help RTPI members with their CPD requirements.
Outsourcing and event management service
Outsourcing and event management service
Kaplan Hawksmere has over 10 years experience in running outsourced and managed training contracts both in the private and public sectors. Our highly skilled team will work with you to effectively manage your events, conferences and training programmes to maximise delegate numbers and revenue and to deliver significant benefits including:
- Financial returns – possible increased revenues or cost reductions
- Risk reduction
- High delivery standards and customer satisfaction
- Flexibility to work with your own teams or independently
- Greater market exposure
- Low cost, exceptional responsive market research
If you would like any further information on this service please contact Neil Vincent on 020 7960 5677 or e-mail neil.vincent@kaplan.co.uk
